Specifically, under certain circumstances, FERC now has the authority to approve and issue siting permits for new transmission lines in areas designated by the Department of Energy as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC).
What does NIETC stand for?
NIETC stands for National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
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- National Institute for Education Strategies and Curriculum (Vietnam)
- Northern Indiana Educational Services Center
- National Institute for Ethnic Studies in Health (UK)
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Britain)
- Nuclear Decay-Induced Excited-Spin-State Trapping
- Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (Nigeria)
- National Individual Events Tournament (American Forensic Association)
- National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
- Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology (India)
- National Interest Electric Transmission Bottlenecks
- NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Electrical Training Center (Portland, OR)
- Nagarjuna Institute of Engineering Technology & Management (Nagpur, India)
- National INFOSEC Education and Training Program
- Navy Imagery Exploitation Workstation
- NCTS-A Imagery Exploitation Workstation
- No-Notice Interoperability Exercise (US DoD)
- No-Notice Interoperability Exercise Planning Group (US DoD)
- National Ignition Facility
- National Immigration Forum
- National Innovation Foundation (India)
Samples in periodicals archive:
Citizen groups will protest the Department of Energy's creation of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors in front of the Park Central New York Hotel, 870 Seventh Avenue.
The AWC project not only reduces the need to build many lower-capacity transmission lines, but relieves grid congestion in one of two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors which were deemed to have significant transmission network congestion and need speedy creation of transmission capacity.